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I still carry my large handled pick. I use it as a cane at times , at times I hook it around a branch of a tree or bush to get me up. I do have to admit it's heavy and my shoulders feel it. I usually swing it over my shoulder and keep it there while swinging detector with my right arm, at times I drag the darn thing when the shoulder starts to ache. I tend to put on a back pack and wander far from my vehicle so you got to have a longer handle pick for the 2 to 3 foot holes you can end up digging using PI detectors. If your not digging the deep ones you never know what your missing.

On 2/22/2024 at 1:12 PM, JCR said:

Use spring steel; like the tension rods used to hold up the trunk deck lids of older passenger cars.

Awesome, will do..thanks!

On 2/10/2024 at 9:18 AM, JCR said:

Around here, any trash that could not be burned like glass & metal was dumped in a nearby low spot or gully or down into a ravine.  You can use a detector with a standard large coil to find the large area signal of Iron. Once found, a probe works very well to feel what is down there. Glass, metal, rocks, roots & both disturbed & undisturbed soil all have their own feel.

 

Interesting,  thanks for reducing my learning curve. I am going to weld up some steel rods and make some probes and give it a go. 

20 minutes ago, JCR said:

Sounds like a good area to find some bottles in trash dump 

I wish I knew how to locate them. Seems like bottles are buried in these areas, I don't have the experience digging them up . I youtubed some channels and they use like probes. Those fellas are pretty good at it.

1 hour ago, JCR said:

Those are some nice finds. You are in a good area.

Thanks JCR, the area is riddled with old placer camps. The key is to find the flat spots and just dig in all metal in order to find them. I'll be going back that's for sure. Need to get the smaller coil for trashy areas, think it's the sp24 coil for simplex machines. 

Thought I would take my Nokta Ultra out in between the rains here in California for a short hunt. I have to say the more I use it the better I like it. Haven't had much luck on gold lately so relics or whatever comes out of the ground is fine with me. Found 3 buttons, the small anchor button is the better of the 3, chinese coin, and perhaps a hand forged  crevice tool

So it's best suitable for smaller mono coils, perhaps sdc 2000 challenge Nenad? 

As a former electrician I never wore jewelery or my ring do to safety concerns around electricityand being hung up by a finger on a ladder . Got used to it so for me it's no problem. But yes we all have days like that. 😂 

Great book and account of a Belgium French man who traveled from France to California after coming ashore in Monterey. From there he joined a company of men and shares  resources to trek by foot from Monterey to Mariposa. Great read especially for me as I live in Mariposa where he prospered and mined gold. His accounts of the founding of Yosemite, the tribes of the region and general conditions of that time. One of my top 3 books I have read about the gold rush. 

Nice find , great spot to be coming back to.

Thanks guys, it's just that coins just are not found in quantity in the gold fields, so when they pop up for me at least it's the find of my day. You just never know what you'll dig out.

Rain in California is always a good thing, but is it when you plan on hitting your favorite detecting spots. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday called for 80% rain and I had plans...so I found a window where it didn't pour..and started swinging. First swing in a spot I been to perhaps 10 times..and I get a nice 77 on vdi...didn't know what to expect and out pops this nice 1839 silver dime. If this dime can just tell us it's trek west during the gold rush years of 1848 and 1849. You can imagine but I was thrilled,  first swing,  first target..and a 184 year old silver dime. My second unusual find was also my first branding iron find. Total surprise by it, and struggled to pick which was my favorite, the dime or the branding iron. At this moment they come out even and the stories these two could tell. Third interesting find I am not to sure what it is, perhaps one of our forum members could fanthom a guess.

Minelab sdc 2300...built like a tank, compact, turn on and go machine that sniffes out the smallest nuggets.

Awesome, those are some nice pieces 👍. 

Not sure if our forum members have been updated on Bill's whereabouts lately as he hasn't posted much for a while. Bill had a devastating fire on his property is the reason. For those that are interested visit his YT channel at NUGGETSHOOTER JOURNAL. Wishing Bill well. 

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

Watched it last night Reese, gave you a thumbs up. Your video quality is getting better and better. Congrats on the nuggets also as we all know how tough it is to find them. Looking forward to more, keep on posting, as it keeps our attention. 

Phrunt, I am not clear on the benefits of this new x coil for the gpx models of the past. As far as I understand it it will be better with EMI, hot rocks, and such to to it being a concentric coil. Since proto types have been made, has the manufacturer tested them out in the field on real targets situations and has it performed better then its counterparts from other manufacturers such as nugget finder and coiltek? I mean 500 bucks these days for anything is a chunk of change, and performance is key for many of us before we decide to part away from our hard earned dollars. I mean if we have and I am sure many of us do run the nuggetfinder Evo coils on our older gpx models, why would we chose to buy an x coil? It would be nice if x coils actually proves its better on emi, hot rocks and best of all depth. In my areas hot rocks are not a problem, not is EMI most of the time. And the evolution coils do just fine. Of course getting a few more inches on smaller targets would be enough convincing for me to buy an x coil, but not until I see proven results. 

If it does better then the 15" mono evolution on small to medium size nuggets at depth I can see paying more for an x coil for the older gpx 4500 and 5000. 

Allen you have done a great job man. I met Allen a few times and can say he had done well with his ml 5000.

1 hour ago, Bootscrape said:

Nice specie their dude.... looks like a duck 🦆. What coil were you using and what depth did you hit it at?

Thanks dude, yeah was using the large stock coil on the legend. It was about 5 inches down, not to deep in the tailings. That's exactly what I was thinking,  a 🦆 duck!  It made my month of nothing.

Here is the Nokta  Legend with it's latest update. Found a ring..and speci.

The Nokta Legend latest upgrade is working for me. Took it out to an old hard rock mine and worked the tailing piles, scored a 10.5 gram specimen. Last weekend took it to Zuma Beach, southern California and worked the wet sands. Seems like the new update made it sing smooth and hardly any chatter. Just for kicks I took out the 15 kz..single frequncy Nokta Ultra..and couldn't work the wet sand, but worked just fine on the dry sand as did my Whites MXT. 

Omgosh, those are some beauties Reese. Greetings from Mariposa.

Amazing to find those that deep, my ML 4500 could not touch those. Although did find a 15 gram solid nugget at 22 inches with the 19 nuggetfinder mono. Congrats!